Also, remember that it is popular to bash the job. Its sort of a "group think". Most everyone I flew with complained about it, yet they kept coming back day after day.

If the job wasn't worth pursuing for a given number of reasons, then we wouldn't have this gluttony of pilots.

But you'll never escape the "honeymoon" mentality that comes with it before the job and during the first year or so. After a while, the joy of it wears off and it becomes like any other job - worse in many ways (the airlines, anyway). Once you've run the slew of checklists for the 1,102nd time, its just plain OLD.

But, then, when you get home for a while, you start to miss it. Strange addiction, this flying bug.